One thing you could never accuse Sons Of Anarchy of was bad writing. There were those who took umbrage with some of the twists and turns the show’s plot took as the years rolled by like so many motorcycles on the highway, but even when the series debatably jumped the shark, the dialogue and characters remained some of the sharpest on television.

Kurt Sutter’s writers room, with the showrunner penning a considerable amount of the scripts himself, managed to come up with scores of...